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United States Patent | 5,293,984 |
Lucas | March 15, 1994 |
A handling and orienting device comprises a carrier plane surface that includes a series of driven rollers between which a table equipped with driven balls is located, the carrier plane and table are relatively movable upward and downward, as well as shifted sidewise in one or the other direction. The driven balls are actuated by a rotating disk and the disk is able to rotate in one or the other direction.
Inventors: | Lucas; Jean-Jacques (Prechac, FR) |
Assignee: | Bobst SA (CH) |
Appl. No.: | 989718 |
Filed: | December 14, 1992 |
Dec 13, 1991[FR] | 91 15756 |
Current U.S. Class: | 198/414; 198/787 |
Intern'l Class: | B65G 029/00 |
Field of Search: | 198/787,782,456,436,414,468.01,468.9,750,431 193/35 MD,35 SS |
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4456116 | Jun., 1984 | Jarman | 198/414. |
4541768 | Sep., 1985 | Walker et al. | 198/414. |
4852721 | Aug., 1989 | Stille | 198/782. |
5000305 | Mar., 1991 | Lucas | 198/414. |
5147032 | Sep., 1992 | Rombouts | 198/787. |
5160017 | Nov., 1992 | Goodman et al. | 198/787. |
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0257438 | Mar., 1988 | EP. | |
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